A born-again Christian, Collie now resides with his wife and 13 children in Wimberley, Texas, where he brews beer & sells pizza.
Other supporters in the blacklist struggle included radio pioneer and Wimberley, Texas native Parks Johnson and reporter and CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite.
Sarah Jarosz, bluegrass singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was raised in Wimberley.
He was consecrated on 6 March 1879, with the religious title 'Mar Theophilus I', by Richard Williams Morgan, of the Ancient British Church, with the assistance of the following bishops Frederick George Lee, John Thomas Seccombe, and Thomas Wimberley Mossman; the latter three were bishops in the Order of Corporate Reunion, an independent association promoting the reunion of Anglicans and other British Protestants with the Roman Catholic Church.
School districts in Hays county include the San Marcos Consolidated, Dripping Springs, Wimberley and Hays Consolidated.
In addition to his wife of sixty-four years, he was survived by a son, Guy Rollins (born March 15, 1946) of Wimberley in Hays County near San Marcos, Texas; two daughters, Sally Sodal of Boulder and Edna Gary Thomas of Doha, Qatar.